04 December 2011
JONATHAN Morton has made a habit of coming up with unusual and fascinating combinations as artistic director of the Scottish Ensemble, and "Baltic Renaissance"…
01 December 2011
THOUGH Abagail Grey's new single isn't a Christmas song it's got the gift of giving all tied up. Released on Monday, the two-track single's called…
01 December 2011
SHE'S been singing since she was eight, was signed at her first record company audition and has a voice that's up there with idols Aretha Franklin, Janis…
27 November 2011
OVER 40 years after calling it a day, prog-rockers Cressida are warming up for a one-off London show with an appearance in an Inverness pub. Tuesday’s…
27 November 2011
IT was a distinct lack of shoogling at a Shooglenifty gig that inspired Black Isle-based choreographer Frank McConnell to propose "The Shoogle Project". "I…
27 November 2011
FOR what he reckons must be the band’s Inverness debut, Undertones guitarist Damian O’Neill promises a better show than on their last Highland visit. That…
25 November 2011
JLS are busy boys. Trying to get them all into one room for a conversation is a difficult task.
23 November 2011
GLASGOW metal band Achren are the headline act at Flanagans Bar in Elgin next month.
22 November 2011
Jazz SOME musicians choose their instruments, but with others it seems as a though the instrument chose them. That seems to be the case with Dennis "Badbone"…
20 November 2011
BACK in the early days of the Belladrum Festival, when former Squeeze songsmith Glenn Tilbrook was playing a solo acoustic show, he found himself fighting…
16 November 2011
SCHEDULED for their third appearance in the Highlands this year, Vintage Trouble’s Nalle Colt might be forgiven for thinking Inverness is very far away.
13 November 2011
TWO of Scotland’s most reverved jazz musicians are joining forces in an intimate setting in the The Stables, Cromarty. Trumpeter and composer Colin…
10 November 2011
A BAND with its roots in the Highlands and its base in Edinburgh, Homework are set to launch their second album, "All That Glitters". The much anticipated…
06 November 2011
CONTEMPORARY music is never easy to sell to the generally conservative audience for classical music, but William Conway remains committed to the kind…
04 November 2011
?A MUSICAL community project in Buckie has helped a teenage rock band to record their debut album and plan for their first Scottish tour. Alternative…
30 October 2011
GLASGOW-BORN saxophonist Bobby Wellins admits he is very excited at the prospect of two of his rarely-heard jazz suites from the 1960s being performed…
23 October 2011
WHEN singer-songwriter Janis Ian was booked to play at Strathpeffer Pavilion, the American singer’s first question was a perhaps understandable: "Where?"…
23 October 2011
THINK of jazz and it is the Mississippi rather than Merkinch which is most likely to spring to mind, but that could be about to change. Merkinch Community…
18 October 2011
BRODIE Castle near Forres will come alive to the sounds of Simply Music this weekend.
16 October 2011
THE new album from Dundee’s Hazey Janes has been a long time coming, the band’s Andrew Mitchell admits, but it looks as though it was worth the wait. …